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Washington Times Feds ignore rules and use stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels
While the Dems bash Romney for sending jobs overseas, they use stimulus funds—which are supposed to generate jobs here—to create jobs in China. Pot meet kettle.

USA Today:

• Just 96K jobs added in August; jobless rate falls to 8.1%
  Note the truth buried in the story:

  The drop in the August unemployment rate fell because 368,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force

  If another half million drop out over the next couple months, you can expect to hear Dear Leader crowing about reducing unemployment.

• Alpha closing 8 coal mines, cutting 1,200 jobs
  Those 1200 families? Not important to this President—after all, WV didn’t vote for him.

Daily Caller Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press
More from the most ethical and transparent administration ever.

NY Post America basher’s backfire: Killed by flag smoke
Epic fail.

Townhall:

• Jeff Jacoby Just as Intended, Teachers Strike Hurts Families
  If you don’t think the union knew the strike would hurt families and planned to use that pain against the city politically, you’re not paying attention.
• Dennis Prager Note to Paul Krugman: Here’s Real “Eliminationist” Rhetoric
• Michael Brown Is the Republican Party the Party of God?
  A timely word of caution.

Bret Stephens@WSJ Muslims, Mormons and Liberals: Why is it OK to mock one religion but not another?

An employee walked into a supermarket in NJ and opened fire with a rifle, killing two innocents.

“I don’t want to die, please,” a woman hiding in a back room softly told a 911 dispatcher.

When you need the police now they’re minutes away. Unfortunately it’s very hard to legally arm yourself for your own protection in NJ. That rifle the perp used? It’s already illegal to tote it around—or, um, commit murder with it—in NJ. That doesn’t seem to have helped the victims much.

The Muslim world is melting down and, to quote one columnist, “Mr. President, you built that.”

• UK Daily Mail Children raised to hate America: Shocking picture of boy holding a gun during anti-U.S. riot in Lebanon… as ANOTHER embassy goes up in smoke
• WSJ The Video Did It: The White House finds a root cause of anti-American violence.
• Derek Hunter@Townhall The Media’s Rape of Reality
• Michael Barone@Washington Examiner Obama stumbles in response to embassy attacks
• CNN U.S. ambassador’s last moments
  Does anyone buy the White House spin that this was just an anti-video mob out of control?

Four colleges evacuated for bomb threats, demonstrating all too easily the chaos that would be created by a real bombing. Does your family have a bug-out plan?

• USA Today Telephoned bomb threats send 3 campuses scrambling
• Fox News Louisiana State evacuates following bomb threat

UK Daily Mail Controversial ‘naked’ airport body scanners to be scrapped after failing to receive European approval
So backscatter machines won’t be used on flights originating from Europe to the U.S. Can we finally dispense with the fantasy that they’re keeping us safe here?

Daniel Henninger@WSJ The Obama Democrats: This isn’t the party of FDR, Truman, JFK or Clinton. They’re different.

Larry Kudlow@Townhall Obamanomics Has Failed Dismally

Washington Free Beacon Reports: Marines Not Permitted Live Ammo
Why have a Marine guard if they aren’t armed? The reaction of State Department embassy personnel—as well as the White House—is outrageous. Embassy grounds are sovereign U.S. soil and should be defended as such. The current administration is only encouraging further attacks by deliberately projecting American weakness and indecision.

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell The Brass Standard
• Jonah Goldberg Don’t Misplace Blame for Middle Eastern Mayhem
• Mike Adams When Students Cheat Liberals Retreat

WSJ:

• The New World Disorder: As the U.S. retreats, bad actors begin to fill the vacuum.
• Romney Offends the Pundits: Doesn’t he know he’s not supposed to debate foreign policy?
• Liz Cheney Cairo, Benghazi and Obama Foreign Policy

USA Today Cairo protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall, remove flag
Add to that four dead Americans at the embassy in Libya. I thought President Hopey Changey was supposed to improve our status in the Middle East. How’s that Arab Spring thing workin’ for ya’?

Michelle Malkin Egyptian faux-rage, deadly American dhimmitude, and the return of Islamic Rage Boy; Update: US Ambassador to Libya, Foreign Service officer, two Marines dead

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell An Economic ‘Plan’?
• Thomas Sowell Depending on Dependency
• Dennis Prager The Most Important Event At Either Convention

Fox News Letting babies cry out at nighttime is OK
Only in academia do you need to waste time and money confirming what our grandparents considered common sense. If you listen carefully you can hear wisdom slowly running down the drain.

John R. Lott, Jr.@Fox Opinion Did Colorado shooter single out Cinemark theater because it banned guns?
In a word (by Biden’s counting method): very likely.

WSJ:

• Desperately Seeking Middle-Class Taxes: What Obama’s critique of Ryan tells us about Obama’s budget plans.
• Karl Rove The President’s Fountain of Youth Is Drying Up: In 2008 young voters chose Obama over McCain by 66% to 32%. Today he leads Romney by 49% to 41%.
• Transformers 2: Obama was honest when he said he wanted to remake America.

Star Parker@Townhall An alternative to Democrats’ moral bankruptcy

Read the story of Pearl Joy at Townhall and at her family’s blog.

Will she survive infancy? Will she have a “normal” life? I don’t know. The problem is…neither do her doctors, who are belatedly admitting that fact after initially advising her mother to abort her. It worries me when humans arrogate the knowledge and power of God, who alone knows this precious baby’s fate.

There were recent reports of gun-related murders in France and Chicago. Since their restrictive gun laws didn’t prevent these killings, maybe they should just make murder illegal. Oh, wait…

Weekly Standard S.C. Dem. Chair Compares GOP Gov. to Hitler’s Mistress
Nice. Now which party was it that was spewing hatred and waging war on women?

Michelle Malkin Obama’s (Un)American Auto Bailout

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell ‘Bait and Switch’ Taxes
• Frank J. Fleming The First Term of Obama Has Been a Failure…of America

AP Fact Check: Clinton Claims of Compromise a Stretch
Good to see a liberal outlet fact checking the Dems for once, but it’ll be interesting to see if they’re as honest with Obama or continue to carry water for The One.

A man in Quebec shot and killed an attendee at a political victory celebration.

Apparently he didn’t get the memo—it’s illegal to carry a handgun in Canada, not to mention using it to murder someone.

Hey, I have an idea for our northern neighbors: you just need more gun laws!